Hi HN! I am Krishna Thota, founder of DevRaven. DevRaven is a monitoring platform for Developers.<p>DevRaven enables engineering teams or individual developers to setup active monitoring for their services/applications and get alerted when things don't work as expected<p>Today's launch makes available the following features:<p>API Monitoring - Monitor your HTTP end points and perform no-code or scripted assertions.<p>Synthetic Monitoring - Execute browser based end-to-end tests using Playwright framework. No setup required.<p>SSL Monitoring - Monitor SSL certificates for your end points and get alerted before they expire.<p>Web Page Monitoring - Run continuous Lighthouse audits on your web pages to ensure best performance, SEO.<p>Welcome any feedback, questions or suggestions.
This is very timely for something I've been wanting to do! Giving it a try now.<p>Edit: tried it. I like it, I hadn't used playwright before but it was fairly straightforward to set up the test I wanted. Since you requested feedback, some thoughts:<p>- I started by writing and testing my check locally, and then copied it over into a “synthetic test”. It would be cool if that were more seamless, e.g. if all of my tests were configured through a git repo and DevRaven had a GitHub webhook that was notified when the config changed.<p>- I had to double-escape some backslashes in my code for it to be accepted, you might be eating the escapes during some string processing?<p>- It would be cool to see timings of tests (i.e. the time between individual asserts as reported by playwright, but even the overall time would be a useful metric).<p>- This is probably just my inexperience with playwright, but it would be nice to have an example that used playwright's expect function instead of chai.<p>- TypeScript support would also be nice.
Hi Krishna, congrats on the launch!<p>I really like that you have the 'try with no credit card' offering, I wish more companies would do this.<p>One question I'd have for you is how _your_ services are hosted. If my service is hosted on AWS us-east-1 and so is my monitoring I'll be worried that I'm not going to get alerted when AWS itself has problems.<p>It seems to me that you're entering into a crowded market. I can think of a dozen or more companies with similar offering. How do you plan on differentiating yourself? Who is the target user for your product and why would they select it instead of a competitor?
This is an area that needs to be fleshed out, so far the best solution I've found is <a href="https://checklyhq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://checklyhq.com/</a><p>Playwright + other monitoring checks as a service is amazing.<p>You do have to make your tests pretty resilient to prevent false positives through (retry on network issues etc.)<p>The Playwright test framework helps with that.
this looks nice. generous free tier! seconding the idea that it would be nice if gitops (flat config files in git) was a first class interface to configure everything. that would be a differentiator for me.
Hi Krishna, Great product you have put there.<p>What is the long term plan wrt pricing, what should I expect if I sign up?<p>Like the clarity of the home page, well done and good luck!